
Is this the future, in a world where the seas are rising?
DEEP R&D Ltd
The Sama-Bajau are an Indigenous seaborne people from South-East Asia, sometimes called Sea Nomads. For thousands of years they lived a coastal subsistence lifestyle, foraging underwater without diving equipment and holding their breath for extreme durations. But multiple crises threatened their way of life in the early 21st century. Industrial over-fishing, pollution and coral bleaching hit their food supplies, and sea-level rise engulfed their coastal homes.
In 2035, a community of Bajau people living off the coast of Sabah, northern Borneo, raised seed funding to…